Archive for June, 2011

• Dear Spammer, you've unsucessfully tried to spam my website for years & now you send me a link request by email. Guess the reply. Yours etc. #
• @sciamannata Ow. Ow. Ow. I can sort of feel the pain in my back from the memory of mine. Try to get some rest. #
• Another comedy masterpiece -> RT @MarcUpdates: Ha! Lady Gaga finally becomes fairgame for weird Al http://t.co/cse6r0v #
• @pookie_uk Where? I want to add more irrelevant comments (probably about Space Hamsters). Its been that kind of day #
• There is a word for people who follow lots of people to get a large follower count then dump them en masse. Its not celebrity. #
• Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 at the Walker from next week looks like it could be worth a of lunchtime visit or two ttp://bit.ly/mINmqC #
• I find myself dealing with on the one hand a company trying to slow them down and speeding up one lost in never never land #
• So having written to both time to do some writing I want to do. At least till the ludicrous Luther at 9PM. #
• @symatt Instead of watching some TV? That could be a catchy name for a children's TV show #
• @symatt How about The Flashing Blade? I'll start you off "You've got to fight for what you want" "For all that you believe" #
• @symatt It really doesn't matter if it's raining or if it's fine
  just as long as you've got time to p-l-a-y playaway-away-way #
• @symatt lol I think there is a Radio 4 panel show in this – you probably lose if you have to resort to the Banana Splits theme #
• @simonjrogers Personally I'm not a big fan. Don't ask me why – with a book I feel they're intrusive while in a magazine they're not. #
• @GRIMACHU @StargazersWorld @daneofwar @Highmoon One London ones was over Easter Weekend when all major rail routes to were closed… #
• @GRIMACHU @StargazersWorld @daneofwar @Highmoon A dozen or more staff were flown in from US pushing costs through the roof… #
• @GRIMACHU @StargazersWorld @daneofwar @Highmoon There were roadworks on the motorways into London… #
• @GRIMACHU @StargazersWorld @daneofwar @Highmoon It was a lot less than a year after the previous one… #
• @daneofwar The venue staff were a nightmare for traders one had an epilepsy attack as a result of flashing lights on cleaning vehicles… #
• @daneofwar Access for load into the venue was through a lift that the cleaners kept jamming on the floor they were on. #
• @daneofwar At least one trader went out of business at the show! #
• @GRIMACHU It was a disaster. I'll stop now. I was there to help out a friend. Shame because it had been getting better till US took charge. #
• @GRIMACHU Thankfully I wasn't there for that. Shame about the bad ones because Manchester was so good. #
• @GRIMACHU @daneofwar @StargazersWorld @Highmoon I should apologise I still have a very raw nerve for that GenCon. #
• @daneofwar Ow. I can understand the trauma – for me it would be wasps. #
• Website just suggested I might subscribe to alerts on Stanley Baker's upcoming films. (In case you don't know he died in 1976 aged 48) #
• @RPGdonts From the imaginary live badger's point of view yes. #
• Woke up this morning, Dadadada, Sky over cast and grey, Dadadada, PHP needs a writing, Dadadada, Got those CodeIgniter Blues… #
• @simonjrogers Because they're worth it #
• @simonjrogers Shame. I quite like the idea of them having to spend hours with beauty products to get that just out of the forest look. #
• Weather don't know what its doing, Dadadada, Chicken sandwich was, Dadadadum, Form handling written, Dadadada, Got those CodeIgniter blues.. #
• @jazzchantoozie Thats about 0.44% of your 15 minutes of fame (20 words at average adult reading speed of 300 words per minute) #
• Plan A – clever but not so workable. Plan B – everything displayed all over the shop. Plan C – back to tried and tested technology. #
• @jazzchantoozie I just wished I could have written it out on the back of a used envelope and taken a picture for that authentic delivery #
• @insideoutcast Good choice #
• Has John Wyndham been reincarnated as a street furniture designer? http://t.co/ojkX4fp via @Eithin @nattars #
• @EmperorsElite Thanks for the #ff #
• @SteveHills There must be something in the water. I'm assuming Pink Dodgem isn't a euphemism #
• @DJD73 Thanks for the #ff #
• @b_s_lynn Thanks for the #ff #
• Friday night & I'm wiped. Still if I the words won't flow I accidentally bought 5 DVDs earlier so I can fall asleep in front of one of them. #
• RIP Peter Falk. No fictional murderer need fear the line "Just One More Thing" anymore. #
• @vmdolphin Thanks for the #ff #
• @6violet9 Thanks for the #FF #
• @call_me_salome I need Terms of Service top (banana) ? #
• Hello [Roll 1d6: 1) World 2) Pussycat 3) Minions 4) Saturday 5) Friends 6) Is it me you're looking for? ] #
• @jasummerell @Thisangelbites I'm always pleasantly surprised when a little bit of sillyness spreads #
• I'm pretty certain that saying that the document I'm writing right now has the title "Jam Sandwich" will give nothing away #rpg #
• @daneofwar In all its fruity goodness #
• I'll write one, maybe two, more sections of "Jam Sandwich" and then I'm going to veg in front of the TV. #
• Caught a clip of Tuesday's Luther: looks like its going to take a pop at #rpgs & fantasy fiction. Didn't that go out of fashion in the 80s? #
• Funnily I have a part written blog post about Luther being complete fantasy and the need for new directions for crime fiction & #rpgs #
• @6d6Fireball Given he's a producer on the show he's wasting himself. Like Waking the Dead: hunting criminals that just don't exist IRL. #
• @simplychrista That sounds like an excellent plan #

X-Men First Class wasn’t a film I had particularly high expectations of.  Super hero films aren’t my first choice for a night out and the X-Men haven’t really done a lot for me in the past.  On top of all that I was struggling to imagine James McAvoy as a young Patrick Stewart.

So I was pleasantly surprised by just how good X-Men First Class was.  Until I saw this I’d have thought any attempt to do ’60s Bond chic would be destroyed by the memory of Austin Powers.  Yet this film plays it so well that it pulls it off completely.  From tiny details like black roll neck sweaters to wallpaper patterns to the architecture to submarines hidden in boats the attention to detail is phenomenal.

All the central performances are believable and enjoyable.  The special effects work with horrible glitches or glaringly bad moments.  The sound track fits the era and the film.  The story is fun.  The villain, henchmen and henchwomen are just close enough to any Bond villain but the serial numbers have been lovingly filed off.

I feel bad about having one little quibble but having seen this film I’d have loved to see another film with McAvoy’s Xavier and Fassbender’s Magneto sparing as friends.

So overall I really enjoyed X-Men First Class its quite possibly my favourite super hero film of all time.

• Could Liverpool have the sun back from earlier please. This grey, wet bleh weather is just, well, bleh. #
• @vmdolphin Thanks for the #ff #cgi #animation #3d #
• Waiting. There is a shortage of polite adjectives that describe just how absolutely awful daytime TV is. #
• @DaveBartlett1 On TV the other day rep for the body to oversee phasing out cheques said there would be a replacement which would be… #
• @DaveBartlett1 … Cheques. They've spent years working on a replacement and the best they've come up with is what we have now. lol #
• @pinpointzero lol. I had no idea that there were that many property shows or that my unwanted jewelery could be so valuable #
• Who knew there was a need for a thing to go in bags to organise them and a beverage holding slot is a USP? #thingsilearntfromdaytimetvads #
• @call_me_salome Morning #
• Still waiting for a flock of white vans to appear. In 5 minutes they'll all be late. Good job I didn't just take the morning off. #
• Still I've caught up on my email, cleared down half my RSS feeds, tidied the flat and done some writing while I'm waiting #
• @thedeadone Just getting all the annual safety checks done & little fixes in one morning. In theory since its now afternoon #
• Good Afternoon World #
• @Myrkwell @symatt Shredding can be very cathartic too #
• @Myrkwell Cut it up with scissors and feed it through one piece at a time… #
• The "simple" plumbing job that the workmen thought would be "easy" turned out to need a circlular saw. Thats why I didn't do it myself #
• Anyway the flock of white vans has now departed and I get an hour of my day off to do with as I please… #
• Just spotted a new bad profile trick to put me off following someone – bragging about being number one for specific keywords! #
• @insideoutcast Personally of the things wrong with the two Dalton Bonds Dalton isn't one of them. #
• 10: echo "Hello World"; 20: Goto 10; #
• @DanDiplo 15 hours late: Not yet I'll have to take a look. Thanks #
• @xtamsynx Apply yourself and you can come number 1 in Google for "Sleep" or you could try a dodgy SEO consultant at $100 a pop. #
• Wish that email had said deep fried follower analysis like I first thought. Would have been so much more interesting. #
• @grahamwalmsley If I enter "Go North" will you describe what is to the North? #
• @undercoverman Happy Birthday #
• @richard_iorio And whistle the Mission Impossible theme as you do? #
• Not No Dice – Nice Dice RT @Dicecreator: We're departing from the ebay shop to the new standalone webshop http://t.co/YYoeXvw #
• @TrapCast_Jenn If I send "GO NORTH" do we get a wavicle @grahamwalmsley ? #
• @richard_iorio That should work too #
• @KimKnox Do you think there might be a Haynes Manual that given how you know who wrote both dubious poetry & Haynes Manual credits? #
• @KimKnox Better that it be a Haynes Manual than a set of Ikea instructions. Would give a whole new meaning to "Push part A into Slot B" #
• @KimKnox Before searching for "How to Summon a Demon" wouldn't "How to Contain a Demon" be a wise thing to search? #
• RT @KimKnox: 'How to summon a demon' is back as a blog search. It dropped away for a bit. Obviously people were a little *too* successful #
• @KimKnox Yes lol but then your bookshelf ends up looking like something in Tate Modern or falls down. #
• @jasummerell I bought a printer from Amazon. They send me printer offers. The one I got still works. Good job they can't send gremlins #
• Klout saysI'm influential on "icelandic volcano". Anyone know how I limit my liability against accusations of influencing an eruption? #
• @jasummerell Definitely yes they do (I suspect you mean algorithms rather than logarithms) #
• @jasummerell I'd go with perplexed or confused – they say I'm influential on "washington dc". Just not sure in which parallel universe #
• @jasummerell lol I'd suggest moderation. The guy in the next room to mine at uni took too much pro plus to study for exams. Couldn't sleep.. #
• @jasummerell …so at 2AM he went down to the tennis courts to jump over the net. Ended up drenched in sweat and wide awake at 4AM #
• For #rpg players: How do you feel about organisational charts to show background information? eg Villains corporation or a thieves guild #
• RT @jasummerell @CUnderkoffler: His name was Odin, he was a Norse god. / But that was many years ago, before Ragnarok, you know… #
• @jasummerell Sadly that I can't tell you. I was trying to sleep through the whole thing since I'd finished my exams. #
• @jearle How about as a GM? Do you think they can help make a big organisation (eg SLA) easier to comprehend than just text? #
• @grahamwalmsley I'd not thought about them as handouts more as GM aid to understanding and tracking PC actions. I can see as handouts too. #
• @jearle I'd forgotten that – I'll have to have a look again #
• @jasummerell I think that was night three without sleep. Night two had two other vets students trying to wake him up when he'd finally slept #
• @grahamwalmsley My bad. For the GM as an addition to text to help see how a group is put together in principal a good idea? #
• @daneofwar Thanks I'm getting the feeling the consensus is that they're a useful addendum. #
• @sandchigger They can make great PC opponents in urban games #
• @grahamwalmsley Any sort of organisation (not PC group) from a Thieves Guild to a Government. Even loose affiliations of small gangs. #
• Lunch over. Nose now has to be applied back to the grindstone. #
• @inrepose Thanks Consensus seems to be #rpg players think appropriately used charts are a Good Thing TM #
• @DaveAllsop Evidence that the human race is doomed to die out as they fail to understand: reprint = keeping it in print to get new players! #
• @call_me_salome Morning Can we buy the Random Salome Jones Morning Greeting Generator somewhere? #
• @symatt The way you say that makes me wonder if I should have felt dirty whenever I did in the past #
• @ghostwoods West Wing: Some of the stupidest criminals in the world are working right here in America. I've always been very proud of that. #
• @daneofwar Have fun #
• @daneofwar @StargazersWorld 14 days! When I was a lad it was only the last day that was like that #
• @daneofwar @StargazersWorld Now you've said that I'm not surprised looking at your avatar. Something about your eyes #
• @GargoylePhan I cheat – its gone lunchtime here #
• @DanDiplo Nice #
• A little bit of writing before the last episode of The Shadow Line. #
• Clearing out old cover discs – this one has free high res textures that are at most 400 pixels square lol. #
• Anyway less of this frivolity – time for the last part of The Shadow Line. #
• @richeym IE6 is the Gatehouse of the Browser world #
• To a short list: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Between the Lines; State of Play; A Very British Coup; Edge of Darkness add The Shadow Line #
• @grahamwalmsley Personally I think so. You have to stick with it and accept it has its flaws but so do the others on that list. #
• @cultauthor I love Edge of Darkness but if we're picking flaws – its science is ludicrous towards the end – they all have flaws #
• @cultauthor GBH is good and I had to leave off Out, Harry's Game and a few others to fit 140 character #
• @cultauthor I only saw it for the first time last year. Showing that British TV drama can be so good. #
• @cultauthor I liked the dialogue because it went with the theatrical lighting and camera work. All the odd close ups and beams of light. #
• Trying to remember a TV (BBC?) thriller set in Scotland with Simple Minds' Waterfront Beat as the theme. Can anyone help? #
• @cultauthor I'll give you that the only way to read it as a comment on now would be that it was about something rather dull and mundane #
• @very_true_thing Thanks. That's the one #
• @StargazersWorld Thanks for the #ff #
• @DavidBridger I'd been wondering the same thing. #
• @DavidBridger I'm going to give it a try and the ads do make it look at least intriguing. #
• Do you think "100 Books of List of 100 Things to Do Before you Pop Your Clogs To Buy and then Let Gather Dust" would sell? #
• @undercoverman Thanks for the #ff #
• @b_s_lynn Thanks for the #ff #
• Curry + Wine makes Mark a happy boy. Not sure what it's doing to my writing though #
• @6violet9 Thanks for the #ff #
• Hello. Busy Day. Got to Run. Goodbye #
• Pleasantly surprised by the weather which held off for the BBQ. Excellent company and great to see people. #
• Thankfully I didn't fall asleep on the train on the way back as it loops through Liverpool & back to Chester. That would be a Bad Thing ™ #

The Colonnade (or Loggia) at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

• @symatt Had you at least reduced the survivors SAN to single digits? #
• @sixeleven Doesn't really help you but I just logged in to mine without any problems. #
• @sixeleven NP. I've had that when they've been doing unannounced server work before. #
• @KimKnox I'd swap that for the hour of moving files round I've just been doing #
• @DanDiplo Maybe they're five and it works on their mates when they play hide and seek? #
• My thoughts on Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War – If you've not seen it ***Spoilers*** http://bit.ly/k1l9VA #
• I do too. Anyone else? RT @KimKnox: I always hear/read 'spoilers' in River Songs voice. That's bad, isn't it? lol @impworks #
• @KimKnox And I've been thinking of changing my spoiler bar to include River Song lol #
• @CaptainPixel Glad it wasn't just me – lots of reviews paint this as the best episode of series 6. #
• @call_me_salome Ring or Jam Filled? (Isn't it a little early to be taunting us with cake?) #
• @call_me_salome Sorry I was confusing cake with alcohol. Hard to tell if the sun is over the yardarm because I can't see it for clouds #
• Last night's blog post my thoughs on Dr Who: A Good Man Goes to War ***Spoilers*** http://bit.ly/k1l9VA #
• @blindgeekuk Add in presents for children too and it could be a winner #
• @blindgeekuk That said I knew a guy who did quite nicely running a stand selling deodorant, soap and clean T-shirts at multi-day events #
• @blindgeekuk @paulbaalham Tape measures, rulers, pencils and paper at wargames cons. Gaffer tape for LARPers. The opportunities go on #
• @blindgeekuk Sadly given all the talk about cliff hangers – not much of a cliff and no real hanging #
• @blindgeekuk I'd say more but I don't want to spoil it with ***Spoilers*** for US viewers who don't see it till next week #
• @KimKnox Gratz! #
• Making a set of reusable road sections I can use in Maptools #
• @symatt Not a clue what mine is. I must be the exception that proves that rule then #
• @paulbaalham Or you need to be particularly creative so he feels it was a real present #
• A simple rule to help improve your life: Don't pick fights with moving buses. #
• @cthulhuchick You could try Google's timeline search with dates before the guy with same name came along. #
• @cthulhuchick They've added older news archives so you might get something. #
• @cthulhuchick If you can get to a university library try the book that lists papers and published works (can't remember what its called)… #
• @cthulhuchick … Also the one that lists citations. I'm guessing there are online services for both now. #
• @ehlanakovas No but daily I watch people act as though they would win. #
• @TheRealGelfie A bit late… From memory I think he broke something during the stunt sequence where he did but I hope I'm wrong #
• The only problem with listening to @TheUkes while editing graphics is selecting the wrong bit of the graphic when laughing #
• @jearle I ran for a bus in London last year and the driver waited because I'd surprised him by saying thank you the day before #
• @symatt Really sorry to hear that #
• Signs its summer: the open top, horse drawn carriage tours of Liverpool are back starting from outside our office today. In the rain. #
• @oldknickers Gratz #
• Hollywood Career-o-Matic (the Career-o-Matic is at the bottom of the first page) http://slate.me/lXNhWq #
• @richeym There may be an embargo slapped on all the reviewers till the day before. Seems to happen more and more these days #
• @simonjrogers Sounds interesting lots of good source material to call on from the real world to the pulp of Indiana Jones & Undersea Kingdom #
• Surprised to find I just wrote 1900 words in 2 and a bit hours. Time for a break from the computer. #
• Overheard on the bus "Men keep chatting me up in shops" "Then stop wearing that T-Shirt that says STAFF in 4 inch high red letters" #
• @paulbaalham I edited for space "Then stop wearing… …across your tits!" It did say STAFF on the front and the back #
• @EmperorsElite Thanks for the #ff #
• @KeremGogus Thanks for the #ff #
• @DJD73 Thanks for the #ff #
• @darkdwarf A minute ago I was standing by Debenham watching the big black cloud heading your way #
• Just spotted the woman from yesterdays tweet http://t.co/a0B2cpr being accosted by a man in HMV – wearing that T-Shirt again lol #
• @darkdwarf They are particularly stupid. At least it wasn't a seagull – stupid and vicious too. #
• @darkdwarf Do you think we could connect a bit of seaweed to twitter to automatically send us weather alerts #
• @b_s_lynn Thanks for the #ff #
• Work -> Pub -> Bus -> Curry -> TV I believe I may have just completed the nice version of the English Friday #
• @RPGdonts lol. Didn't you miss the fry up out of that somewhere? #
• @Danacea Very Grrr. #
• @6violet9 Thanks for the #FF #
• @Danacea Maybe they have the music from Benny Hill on their iPods? I did once open my front door to find one filling in the card lol #
• @Danacea Its not your day today is it? #
• Memo to self: Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go Out and Do Something Less Boring Instead? #

There were some nice things about the latest Doctor Who episode: A Good Man Goes to War.  It started very well with the Cybermen and the collection of various allies from across Time and Space.  There was the nice idea that Doctor becoming word for warrior in many cultures that have encountered him.   There was the clever twist of a villain using The Doctor’s righteous indignation and anger against him.  There were some nice lines and some nice jokes including some written just for the adults watching.

It was nice to see the appearance of The Spitfires (Victory of the Daleks) and Captain Avery and his crew (The Curse of the Black Spot).  It seems a bit of a shame the other allies couldn’t have been recurring characters or have it explained why they owed him a little better.

There is one important exception to those the Doctor has already met – Lorna Bucket.  I’m assuming the Doctor doesn’t remember because he’s not run through the Gama forests with her yet.  That suggests “The only water in the forest is the river” is not just an explanation of how River Song’s name comes about but also where the baby is being held captive or at least the next step along the road.

Lorna Bucket isn’t the only new characters who I’d like to see in future episodes: Madame Vastra and her maid Jenny seem interesting enough to deserve another appearance.

Then there was the episodes key revelations that Amy and Rory’s baby has Time Lord DNA and that River Song is Melody Pond.   So some significant dots of River’s arc are joined and two new question posed:

• Why does she have Time Lord DNA.  Did The TARDIS tweak River Song’s DNA to add a bit of Time Lord to give the Doctor a companion of a different sort?
• How do you make a Time Lord a weapon to kill a Time Lord?

For all its good points, answers and questions this episode has left me slightly underwhelmed.  I can’t really explain why but after two viewings I’d have to say I enjoyed the series opening and The Doctor’s Wife more.   Maybe it just didn’t feel expansive enough, the cliff hanger lacked danger and the revelations not astonishing enough after the build up?

Going back for a moment to The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People I really do hope someone explains how there comes to be highly concentrated acid to be pumped from under a 13^th Century monastery on an island.  Concentrated acid is usually made at chemical works and even if there was some massive underground reserve it being under a millennium old monastery is rather odd.  Does the monastery tie into all the other religious references somehow?  Headless Monks, The Papal mainframe and militant Anglicans.

Which just leaves the much tweeted about title of the next episode.  I’m guessing but I’m wondering if Let’s Kill Hitler isn’t actually a metaphor.  A reference to the old time travel SF chestnut that if you could go back in time and Kill Hitler and so stop the evil of the Nazis how can you know some greater evil will not happen without the lesson from history?

• What to do with a wet bank holiday Monday? A little time with Vue I think. First sardines on toast for lunch. #
• @KimKnox Definitely a bit Brrrr. I've not put any heating on today yet but I have a feeling I will be later #
• I'm feeling surprisingly perky this morning despite being woken up by a cataclysmic thunder / hail storm last night. Time to code… #
• @symatt My shortest lived character. Half a pair of halfling evil twins: one LE and one CE. GM "forgot" to tell us other PCs were paladins! #
• @TheCrazyGM @symatt My halfling threw himself into a spiked pit trap after the paladins slaughtered his twin in cold blood. #
• @CaptCalamitous Openzones coverage is erratic – best spot I found in London was the gardens at the Natural History museum #
• @steven_moffat Shame. I was hoping at least this one and next. Bored of overused Daleks. #
• @symatt Its all to do with giant, zombie hamsters. Or was that was Doctor Who? #fakespoiler #
• @call_me_salome Were you hoping for short stories or short films with an Aztec prison feel (probably staring Danny Trejo or Cheech Marin)? #
• @call_me_salome Well the film probably would have been pants so close #
• I shouldn't be so happy pleased with persuading a website to draw bar and spider graphs today but I am. #
• Best of my photos of last night's torrential hail storm http://bit.ly/jB6Ygh #
• Added the twitter button to my site RT @guardiantech: Twitter & Google fight back against Facebook's Like button http://bit.ly/jPhlrT #
• @KeremGogus And there are so many other makes of cars that there are no good models of #
• @vertexangel @KeremGogus Last time I looked there were no or few models of regular 60s,70s or 80s cars. #
• @vertexangel @KeremGogus Its hard to know if there is no demand or no one making a bit of money from a niche market. #
• Making some textures for MapTools using Vue and models from Cornucopia 3D #
• Another excellent, convoluted episode of The Shadow Line – if nothing else its proved too many TV reviewers have no attention span anymore. #
• @eyedoubleyou @tapastapas No inducement. I just like their tapas #
• @DJD73 Thanks for the #ff #
• @bg_josh Watch episodes of The Unit and its pretty easy to spot the undercurrents. More so in the DVD extras. #
• @KeremGogus Thanks for the #ff #
• @richard_iorio Afternoon #
• That's a desk? Looks more like something from a fifties SciFi film… http://bit.ly/ktNwIQ #
• @b_s_lynn Thanks for the #ff #
• @grahamwalmsley So can we expect "Sing-a-long with Cthulhu" or at the very least "The Cultists Songbook" in the future #
• Writing something a little odd about something a little mundane for Friday night. #
• @vertexangel Thanks for the #ff #
• @MoonWolf95 Thanks for the #FF #
• @6violet9 Thanks for the #FF #
• Definitely shorts and T-shirt here weather today #
• Despite moving a load of fluff text to other WiP the one I have open just keeps growing… #
• I'd happily pay good money for a robot that folds washing and puts it away. A bit more if it could put clean pots away too. #
• So time for some answers and some new questions #DoctorWho #
• @vmdolphin Thanks for the #ff #
• Still not quite sure what to make of that #DoctorWho I think I will have to watch it again… #
• @thedeadone Not exactly. Just can't make my mind up yet. I really need to watch it again I think. #
• @grahamwalmsley With or In? #
• @DanDiplo He's over 900, the last of his species, doesn't settle down & drives the equivalent of a VW Bus. Eyebrows will be raised lol. #
• Somewhere between 1000 and 1500 words added to my WiP today… #
• … Could be more but I'm doing lots of research and fact checking (isn't writing fantasy supposed to avoid needing that kind of work?) #